" These were not dead ideas to be preserved in a museum, but ones that
still had enormous potential. Sometimes, to be sure, the surviving
members of the School were not happy with the interpretations they were
given and the impact they had. I was myself sometimes accused of
expressing an elegiac attitude to the School’s legacy rather than using
it to inspire contemporary theory and perhaps even practice. However, I
never thought you had to choose between historical retrieval and
contemporary application. Obviously, you have to make sense of the ideas
historically before you can use them in new circumstances. You had to
see what their historical limitations were, rather than simply applying
them wholesale to present problems.